Bug 2630 – A project saved with an imported MP3 with Unicode metadata cannot be opened

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Audacity 3.0.3 development began 19th April 2021

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Bug 2630 - A project saved with an imported MP3 with Unicode metadata cannot be opened


Summary:	A project saved with an imported MP3 with Unicode metadata cannot be opened

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Audacity
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Application Core
Version:	3.0.0
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P1 RepeatableAll
Assigned To:	Leland Lucius

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Reported:	2021-01-14 10:00 UTC by Peter Sampson
Modified:	2021-01-21 11:24 UTC (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Steps To Reproduce:	1) get an MP3 with "±The Big AfrO®" in the comment tag filed 2) Import that into Audacity 3) Save the Project 4) Close Audacity and relaunch 5) Attempt to open the project 6) Observe: you can't - error message >Error Opening Project >Unable to parse project information
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Closed:	2021-01-21 00:00:00

Flags:	petersampsonaudacity: Test‑OK‑Win+ petersampsonaudacity: Test‑OK‑Mac+

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Description Peter Sampson 2021-01-14 10:00:23 UTC

If you have a project with an imported MP3 that has Unicode characters in its tag metadata you save that project - that project cannot be reopened.

P1 due to the loss of data.

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Also note that the error message
>Error Opening Project
>Unable to parse project information

has a "?" help button - bit that goes to this Manual page
https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Errors_on_opening_or_recovering_an_Audacity_project

This Manual page is really the hangover from AUP projects and in particular has nothing about this particular error.

Comment 1 Peter Sampson 2021-01-14 10:01:23 UTC

Fixed by Leland in
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/9e53df0c47495f520f94472d61762da24c9651eb

Comment 2 Peter Sampson 2021-01-14 10:19:33 UTC

Testing on W10 with Audacity 3.0.0 9e53df0

This now works fine on Windows

Comment 3 Peter Sampson 2021-01-14 10:32:38 UTC

Testing on macOS 11.1 with Audacity 3.0.0 9e53df0

This now works fine on Mac